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| x Rocketdyne J-2 |
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flown | Saturn V | 3 |
Rocketdyne's J-2 was America's largest production liquid hydrogen fueled rocket engine before the Space Shuttle main engines (SSME), and is being revived in support of NASA's return to the Moon.
The J-2 was a major component of the Saturn V rocket....
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| Saturn INT-21 | 2 | ||||
| x Rocketdyne F-1 |
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flown | Saturn V | 1 |
The F-1 is a rocket engine developed by Rocketdyne and used in the Saturn V. Five F-1 engines were used in the S-IC first stage of each Saturn V, which served as the main launch vehicle in the Apollo program. The F-1 is still the most powerful...
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| Saturn INT-21 | 1 | ||||
| x RD-180 |
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flown |
The RD-180 (РД-180, Ракетный Двигатель-180, Rocket Engine-180) is a dual-combustion chamber, dual nozzle, Russian-developed rocket engine, derived from the RD-170 used in Zenit rockets. Like the four chamber RD-170, the combustion chambers of the RD...
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| x RD-170 |
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flown |
The RD-170 (РД-170, Ракетный Двигатель-170, Rocket Engine-170) is the world's most powerful multi-nozzle, multi-chamber, liquid bipropellant rocket engine. It burns the Russian equivalent of RP-1 fuel and LOX oxidizer in four combustion chambers...
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| x Kestrel |
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Falcon 1 | 2 |
The Kestrel engine is an LOX/RP-1 pressure-fed rocket engine. The Kestrel engine was developed by SpaceX for upper stage use on the Falcon 1 rocket.
Kestrel was built around the same pintle architecture as the Space X Merlin engine but does not have...
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| x Merlin |
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flown | Falcon 1 | 1 |
Merlin is a rocket engine developed by SpaceX for use on its Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets. Merlin uses RP-1 and liquid oxygen as propellants in a gas-generator power cycle. The Merlin engine is designed for sea recovery and reuse.
The pintle...
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| x NK-33 |
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NK-33 and NK-43 were rocket engines designed and built in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the Kuznetsov Design Bureau. They were intended for the ill-fated Soviet N-1 rocket moon shot. The NK-33 engine achieves the highest thrust-to-weight ratio...
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| x M-1 |
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test fired |
Aerojet's M-1 was the largest and most powerful liquid hydrogen-fueled rocket engine to be designed and built. It offered a baseline thrust of 1.5 million pounds force and 1.8 million pounds force as its immediate growth target. The M-1 was larger...
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| x H-1 |
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flown |
Rocketdyne's H-1 is a 205,000Â lbf (910Â kN) thrust liquid fuel rocket engine burning LOX and RP-1. The H-1 was developed for use in the S-IB first stage of the Saturn I and Saturn IB rockets, where it was used in clusters of eight engines. This was...
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| x HM7B |
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The HM7B is a european cryogenic rocket engine which currently powers the upper stage of the Ariane 5 ECA, ESC-A.
The HM7 engine, built upon the development work of HM4, first flew in 1979, powering the third stage of the Ariane 1. The evolved HM7B,...
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| x RB545 | study |
The RB545 was an air-breathing rocket engine that was proposed to propel a British space shuttle (see HOTOL) to orbit using a single stage.
The exact details of this engine are covered by the UK's Official Secrets Act and there is consequently...
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| x RD-58 |
The RD-58 (manufacturer designation 11D58) is a rocket engine, developed in the 1960s by OKB-1, now RKK Energia. The project was managed by Mikhail Melnikov The engine was initially created to power the Block D stage of the Soviet Union's abortive N...
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| x RD-8 |
The RD-8 engine was developed by Yuzhnoye Design Bureau for the second stage of the Zenit rocket. It has four hinged chambers and a single turbopump unit. The fuel pair is LOX/kerosene. Vacuum thrust is 78.5Â kN and its specific impulse in vacuum is...
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| x RL-10 |
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flown |
The RL10 was USA's first liquid hydrogen fueled rocket engine. An updated version is used in several current launch vehicles. Six RL10 engines were used in the S-IV second stage of the Saturn I rocket. One or two RL10 engines are used in the Centaur...
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| x RS-27A | flown |
The RS-27A is a liquid-fuel rocket engine developed by Rocketdyne for use on the first stage of the Delta II and Delta III launch vehicles. It provides 1.05 meganewtons of thrust burning RP-1 and LOX in a gas-generator cycle. The engine is a...
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| x RS-68 |
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flown |
The Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne RS-68 (Rocket System 68) is a liquid-fuel rocket engine that burns LH2 with LOX. It is the largest hydrogen-fueled engine in the world. Development of the engine started in the 1990s with the goal of producing a...
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| x RS-83 |
The RS-83 was a rocket engine design for a reusable liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen rocket larger and more powerful than any other. The RS-83 was designed to last 100 missions, and was intended for use on the first stage of a two-stage-to-orbit...
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| x RZ2 |
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The RZ2 was a British design for a LOX / kerosene liquid fuel rocket engine to power the Blue Streak missile.
The design was a development of the Rolls-Royce RZ1 rocket engine, which had in turn been a development by Rolls-Royce of the Rocketdyne...
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| x Reaction Motors XLR-99 |
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flown |
The XLR99 engine was the first large, throttleable, restartable liquid propellant rocket engine. It was developed beginning in the 1950s by the Reaction Motors Division of Thiokol Chemical Company to steer the X-15 research aircraft. It could...
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| x Space Shuttle main engine |
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flown |
Space Shuttle main engines (SSMEs) are reusable liquid-fuel rocket engines built by Rocketdyne. Each Space Shuttle ascent to orbit is propelled by three of the fourteen SSME engines currently used by the NASA Space Shuttle program. After each flight...
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| x Star 48 |
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The Star 48 is a type of solid rocket motor used by both the Space Shuttle and the New Horizons probe. It is used almost exclusively as an upper stage. It was developed primarily by Thiokol Propulsion, and now manufactured by Boeing.
The "-48"...
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| x Vinci |
Vinci is a European Space Agency cryogenic rocket engine currently under development. It is designed to power the new upper stage of Ariane 5, ESC-B, and will be the first European re-ignitable cryogenic upper stage engine, raising the launcher's...
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| x Vulcain |
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flown | Ariane 5 | 1 |
Vulcain is a family of European cryogenic first stage rocket engines for the Ariane 5.
The development of Vulcain, assured by a European collaboration, began in 1988 with the Ariane 5 rocket program. It first flew in 1996 powering the ill-fated...
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| x RD-107 |
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| x RD-0410 |
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| x RD-0120 | |||||
| x RD-0146 |
Development partially financed by Pratt and Whitney who market this engine outside former USSR.
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| x RD-550 | |||||
| x RD-512 | |||||
| x RD-511 | |||||
| x RD-510 | |||||
| x RD-503 | |||||
| x RD-502 | |||||
| x RD-350 | |||||
| x RD-303 | |||||
| x RD-302 | |||||
| x RD-301 | |||||
| x RD-280 | |||||
| x RD-275 | |||||
| x RD-274 | |||||
| x RD-273 | |||||
| x RD-270 | |||||
| x RD-268 | |||||
| x RD-264 | |||||
| x RD-263 | |||||
| x RD-262 | |||||
| x RD-261 | |||||
| x RD-254 | |||||
| x RD-253F | |||||
| x RD-253 | |||||
| x RD-252 | |||||
| x RD-251M | |||||
| x RD-251P | |||||
| x RD-251 | |||||
| x RD-250PM | |||||
| x RD-250M | |||||
| x RD-250P | |||||
| x RD-250 | |||||
| x RD-225 | |||||
